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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31
THE OCEAN YACHT RACE.
After Very Stormy Passage Of About Fifteen
Days the Yacht Coronet Arrives at Queenstown.

Days the Yacht Coronet Arrives at Queenstown.
The Coronet arrived ut Queenstown at
11:3O O'Clock Sunday 9th. Nothing had
then been seen OF the Dauntless. The Cor
onet passed the winning point at 1880
O'Clock under Il full press of canvas, the
wind at that hour being west north
vest and fresh. In passing the given line,
Roche's Point, the victorious yacht fired
five guns and the time was at once taken
by the secretary and members OF the Royal
Cork Yacht club who had been on the
lookout for her arrival. The club then
hoisted signal announcing the
Coronet's arrival, the various stations
answering the pennant. The wind
was blowing hard and the Coronet entered
Cork harbor in spanking style, with all
sails set and hugging the western Shore
From the start to the finish the Coro.
net experienced strong gales with ire.
mendous seas. On Tuesday and Wednes-
day she hove to for several hours
each day and made only ninety miles
in forty.eight hours. Her aver
two hundred and thirty to two hundred
and fifty miles day. The Coronet arrlv.
ed at Queenstown ut 12:41 p. m. The APP
parent time occupied in passage is IA days
% hours, 81 minutes, 46 seconds,
and the actual time, compu-
ted on the Greenwich basis, ii days 10
hours minutes II seconds. The whole
number OF nautical miles sailed is 2, $40.
The longest days run is 291.5 miles, made
on Saturday, March &c, and the shortest
1873 miles, made on Tuesday, March
~. The weather was uncommonly
stormy, even for this season OF
the year. No less than seven heavy
gales contrived to keep the sea in a foment
for eleven days OF the trip, and for two
days the weather was so severe as to make
the question OF the yachts living through
them somewhat doubtful. She behaved
splendidly, however, in all sorts OF wealth
er, and proved herself one of the staunch-
est, il not one OF the fastest vessels OF her
type afoat.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31
fHE nADDOCK MURDER:
rho Trial Of Arensdorf At Sioux Cit,


On Friday the testimony was nearly all
preliminary and not OF great Importance
being simply accounts ofthe shooting with
which the public is familiar.
OnSaturday, the most important witness
was an old man named Van Ingham, who
now states, with considerable earnestness
that the man lie saw pass his window on the
run alter the shot was fired and proceed
ing from the scene of the murder, was ohm
Arensdorf. This created flutter of excite
ment among the packed audience, but tho
testimony was not unexpected by the de.
tendant. The cross.examination was uni.
usually vigorous. and contradictory line
OF evidence produced and clearly admitted
between his former statements at the
coroner's inquest and the testimony be.
fore the grand jury. Van Ingham is sixty
years OF age.
Van 1ngham's age and foebieness made
him a poor witness, and the severe cross
examination to which he was subjected
very much destroyed the value of his evil
dence. Witnesses followed who cor.
robora ted Van Ingham as to
the two men going across the
bridge, but the testimony of Mrs. Eber.
hart, wife OF the proprietor OF the Columbia
house. in front OF whose place the murder
was committed, does not agree with the
story OF Van 1ngham as to the murder or
speed. She did not sec them. but thinks
from the sound that there must have been
thr 60 men crossing the bridge, and they
were walking instead of running.
Juryman Webster received permission
from counsel and court and asked Van In
CHAM where the men were when he saw them.
They: were in the west end OF the BRIDGE"
replied the witness. Here the juryman
became intensely partisan in his actions and
words, and with much feeling and emphasis
asked questions and added constr uctions
to the witness testimony that raised the
excitement in the court room to q sensa-
ton. Either Webster was seeking TO be.
fuddle the witness on the question on iden-
tity so far as related to Aren sdori, or was
covering up his intention by purposely'
leaning bis words in the direction OF the
defense
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31
The Government and Wall Street.

The New York Mail and Express saws:
"1sadore Wormser, Of the banking firm OF
1. & 8. Wormser, went to Washington and
called upon Acting Secretary FairchiId.
with whom q conference was had. The
banker plainly told the secretary that while
we might tide over the summer mon tbs
without serious trouble, the contraction of
national bank notes growing out of
tho calling of tho 3 per cents and
the failure Of congress to pass certain ap.
preparation bills, and to adopt other nee
essary measures to release the surplus in
the trea sury would undoubtedly lead to a
crisis in the fall unless the department
should come to the relief OF the market,
failing in which, a special session OF con-
gress would have to be called. Mr.. Fair
child answered that he possessed ample
authority to relieve any money pressure
that may arise and that lie would use his
powers in case OF striugency. He had au.
thority under an act of congress to buy 4
and Ak per cents at the market price, and
would so buy them in case of stringoncy
which he believed would induce holders to
sell. This policy, it is understood, in case
OF need would follow the calling in the last
OF the 3 per cents outstanding. The secre-
tary demonstrated by figures that on
March l, notwithstanding the contraction
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31
4 Georgia Cyclone Pit.

Savannah Times: Perhaps the largest,
best arranged, best furnished and most
costly cyclone pit in the country is owned
by Ed Brown OF Eatonton. It is situated
near the back door of his residence, and is
large enough to accommodate his entire
family. The walls are Of brick, laid in &C.
ment, the floor is carpeted, has fireplace
and chimney, and the room is handsome.
~ furnished. The family could spend
the night there with as much comfort as in
the dwelling. In preparing it Mr.. Brown
had an eye to it's permanency, and spared
no expense in making it pleasant and COM
Portable. To guard against the contin-
gency OF the house blowing over on it and
imprisoning tho inmates, a large sewer pipe
leads off from the pit in an opposite direc-
tion a distance of 100 yards. through
which the family could escape. This unique
underground dwelling is thoroughly pro-
tected against water rising from below or
running In from above. The cost was over
$500:
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31

The production Of the pig iron fur
naces throug bout the United States
continues to show an undated in
crease according to late returns. The
weekly capacity of the anthracite fur
naces on March 1. was over Is per
cent. greater than on March /, 1886,
and that OF the bituminous or coke.
as we'll as OF the charcoal furnaces,
over 46 per cent. greater. According
to the most reliable estimates, it ap-
pears that the production for the first
two months OF the present year was
at least l, 900, 900 tons, which shows
an output unusually close to the full
capacity Of those furnaces in blast.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31
Dismal Earthquake Forebotin2s.

Washington Special Prof. MCGEE, OF the
geological survey, who personally visited
Charleston to investigate the earthquake,
states: The area OF the earthquake ex-
tended from Canada to Cuba and from the
Mississippi to the Bermudas and under the
ocean-nearly a million and a quarter OF
miles. Few OF the reliable recorded earth
quakes of other countries have affected so
great I'm area as those OF New Madrid and
Charleston. That of Lisbon, was, perhaps,
felt over a much greater area, but the dates
are uncertain. As it seems evident that
displacement and earthquakes go together,
the eastern United States are in danger. for
displacement is now in progress at a rate
so astonishingly rapid as to occasion sur.
prise that earthquakes are not more fire.
quent. Petersburg, Richmond, Fredericks-
burg. Washington, Baltimore, Port Depos-
it. Wilmington, Philadelphia, Trenton and
New York have been on the very line OF dis
placement. The professor leaves out the
west, except Salt Lake, in his forebodings;
but Salt Lake, he thinks, is bound to 60
first before any seismatic disturbance is
experienced in the east.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31
Ashland's Biz Real Estate Boom.

An Ashland (Wis.) special of the 25th
says: The real estate boom continues.
Nearly dozen new real estate men have
opened up Offices. Lots that sold two
weeks ago for 500 are now selling from
$500 to 900 each. Ashland never be-
fore experienced such a boom. Since the
first OF tho week every train that arrived
in the city brought a number OF rea; estate
dea lers. and over five hundred strangers
and outside people are in the town seeking
to make investments. The hotels are tax
ed far beyond their capacity. Private
houses are keeping as many as they can.
As high as IS has been paid for bed. All
of the availab BILE acre property was at first
soon picked up. Later the demand was
for business blocks and good residence
property, and many lots near the business
center here changed hands several times,
always at an advanced price.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31
Railroad Matters in Iontais.

Col. Charles A. Bro adwater, president Of
the Montana Central railway, has just
returned from New York and ia on his way
to Helena. To reporter he said:
l have been in New York with President
Hill OF the Manitoba road. Mr.. Hill still
remains there. The Manitoba and Monta.
an Central are working together. Every
thing for the building Of both roads SO
that trains will be running into Helena
this fall. The Devils Lake extension of the
Manitoba will be completed to Great Falls
on the Missouri, in September: The Mon.
tana Central is already graded from Great
Falls to Helena, and the iron will be laid
and trains running by Oct. Is. Passenger
trains will run from St. Paul to Helena
over this route. The road runs through a
prairie country until sixty miles beyond
Great Falls where itstrikes the mount aius.
Nine.tenths OF the> agricultural territory
OF Montana is tributary to this route.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31

The increase in business, as we'll as
the average tariff rate on foreign mer.
chandise, is shown by the importa.
tions at the port OF New York for the
last eight months. They amounted,
OF dutiable articles, to $2O1, 100, 900
on which was collected $97, 100000
duties, or an ave- age Of shade over
48 per cent. This is an increase OF
duties of 100000 compared with
the same months OF the preceding
year, and OF nearly 10000, 900 COM
pared with 1885,.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31

Miss Wolfe of New York pays her
physician $4,000 year. Mrs. Alex
ander T. Stewart retained three doc
tors at an aggregate cost of $4,000,
and called in one OF them nearly every
day. Mrs. William Astor pays to DR..
Fordyce Barker an average OF $780,
600. Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt
spends $4,000 a year in the same
way. But after all poor mortality
must pay its debt, and the great
doctors find themselves unable to do
any more for the richest than for the
poorest patient.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31

The official Investigation OF the Ded.
ham disaster, which the Massachusetts
Railroad Commissioners are now max
ing, is evidently being conducted with
thoroughness that promises AZ full
a knowledge OF the cause as Is neces-
sary to the proper location of respon.
slbllity. Already it seems to be suffi-
GENTLY demonstrated that the fault
was in the bridge not in the train.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31

TIE Canadian Government will
rnd out no exploring vessel this year
to make observations in Hudson
Bay. For three seas ons efforts have
been made to ascertain how long the
bay was open to navigation, and Sir
John Macdonald is said to have been
convinced that further investigations
are useless, as he is satisfied that the
route through Hudson's Strait can
never be made available for COM
merce. Meanwhile the railway from
Lake Winnipeg to Port Nelson or Fort
Churchill, which will be utterly USE
less unless the water route can be
kept open a large part OF the summer,
has been actually begun, and it's pro.
jectors are apparently determined to
complete it as soon az possible,
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31
MINNESOTA NEWS.
s1AfH EARHns' ALLIANCE.

New OAeers ssa Cesstitstio, Usder Which They
Arc Organized.
Tho Minnesota State Farmers' alliance
has adopted q constitution and bylaws.
which they furnish for publication. The
executive committee consists OF the officers
of the alliance, az follows:
President, T. III. Barrett, Herman: vice
president at large c. Canning, Hendrum;
lecturer. T. C. Hodson, Herman; recording
secretary, Eric Olson, Sherburnc; CORE
rponding secretary, H. F.. Boen, Wall Lake;
treasurer, John Diamond. Mankato; vice
presidents. j. j. Furlong, G. W. Haigh, F.. 8.
Nichols, Andrew Richmond and f. II. At
wood.
The alliance is composed of its officers
and one delegate from each subordinate
and county alliance, twenty-five members
constituting a quorum. The officers are
elected annually. Whom there are five sub
ordinate alliances in any county they may
organize county alliance. with constitu-
ton, rules and officers subject to the con-
stitution of the state alliance and shall be
composed OF delegates from subordinate al
liances. County alliances are required to
hold meeting at least once in six months.
No person is eligible to any office in the
state or any county alliance unless he 10 a
member in good standing in some subordi-
nate alliance of the state. The following
rules are laid down by the state alliance
for the orsanizat ton OF an alliance:
Call a meeting of farmers. At that meet
ing, If you agree to organize an alliance,
elect a temporary president and secretary.
Then make out an application for a char
ter in the following form:
To the recording secretary OF the State
Farmers alliance: We, the undersigned.
actual farmers. residing in the township of
-, county Of -, and State Of Min
nesota. hereby apply for a charter for an
alliance, to beknown as the Farmers
alliance, in the county o., and State
OF Minnesota, subject to the constitution
of the state alliance"
At least seven farmers must nign the ap-
plication. Forward the application and
81 charter fee to the recording secretary OF
the state alliance, who will send the char
ter to the pc, son named as secretary in the
application. Appoint a committee on
constitution and bylaws. with iIstruc-
tions to report at the next meeting OF your
organization. At the first meeting agree
upon time and place to meet again for
the purpose OF adopting constitution and
bylaws, and electing the permanent officers
OF your alliance. Meet only when you
have business TO transact, and make your
meetings as interesting as possible Report
the names and postoticc addresses OF
your officers, and the number of melnb ers
in your alliance to the recording secretary
OF the state alliance.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31

The Connecticut Legislature has
passed and Gov. Lounsbury has signed
a bill restricting railroad traffic in the
State on Sunday. 1t goes into effect
next June. It forbids the running OF
trains for any purpose between 1870
A. NJ. and 8 P. NJ. except in cases OF
urgent necessity. Before 1920 A. NJ.
and after 3 P. NJ. the only trains per-
mitted are mail trains and such other
trains as may be authorized by the
Commissioners, if it shall appear that
they are required by the public neces-
sity or for the preservation of freight.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31

Pennsylvania furnishes an executive
mansion for her governors. Shortly
after Governor Pattison moved into
1t he had the misfortune to lose a son,
and now the same sorrow has befallen
his successor, General Beaver. Upon
examination, the house proves to be
poisoned by criminally defective
plumbing, to which is due the death
OF the children.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31
Shutting Down On Free Passes.

The New York World devotes three col.
umns to interviews with railroad execu-
lives in that city, Chicago, Boston and
elsewhere on the free pass system, which so
far as interstate travel Is concerned, will
come to an end April 5, under the pro Wis.,
ions OF the new law. It ia the unani-
nous expression of the officers that the
interstate pass system has grown to be a
crying abuse. All hail it's adjustment
as a diliverance. The president of one
of the leading tunnel lines said it would
increase the receipts Of his line 1,OOO,-
900 annually.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31
The Nice Earthquaks Described.

The secretary of state has received from
Mr.. Hathaway, United States consul at
Nice, dispatch dated the Sd inst, con-
tanning an account OF the earthquake at
that city. Mr.. Hathaway states:
The vibrations are vertical, longitudinal
and tranfersaI, and of not less than thirty
seconds in duration. The massive stone
buildings OF the city were then moved.
lifted and shaken, as it seemed to
their occupants, like ships at
sea. The first shock was followed by an.
other of somewhat lessened intensity, un.
dulating from east to west and accom-
panied by noise in tho air like the blow
ing OF the "Mistral." The sound of falling
walls and the terrified voices Of the people
mingled. The sky became illuminated with
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31

Mr.. Powderly explains that the
sumptuous quarters which the central
organization OF the Knights of Labor
occupies were purchased for $40, 900,
5000 less than the sum voted by the
General Assembly for suitable place.
He has been offered SIS, 900 more for
the property than he gave.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31

The English war Office refused per.
emptcrily to permit the landing in
Ireland OF the Gate City Guard OF At.
Ianta, Ca, under uniform. But Gen.
eral Boulanger in his reply to Captain
T. +. Burke, the commander of the
company, says: ut will afford me the
greatest pleasure to see you in France
with the Gate City Guard, coming as
you do to give testimony to the patri-
otto friendship that exists between the
United States and my own beloved
country"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31

One of the Circuit Judges OF Chicago
gives it as his opinion, based upon
official experience and general obser-
walton, that "the greatest evil with
which modern society is afflicted is q
want OF common honesty" The brill
liant John Van Buren,, in a speech,
once remarked that a certain course
was lat variance with common hon.
esty-which by the way, is not nearly
as common as many people suppose"
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31

= red. glimmering light. apparently electric
in it's quality and unusual at dawr. Of
the so, 900 buildings in Nice, 5000 have
been demolished, 5000 must be taken
down, 6, 900 arc in danger and 800 are
crooked and otherwise damaged. The act.
ual loss to real property alone IL estimat.
ed at so; 900; 900 francs.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31

Thegrandest suspension bridge in the
world is the Roebling bridge over the
East River, between New York and
Brooklyn. Its cost was SIS, 100000.
1t is one of the renowned things that
is not disappointing, and fully meets
the conceptions of all.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31

Of bank note circulation, W had $25, ooo,.
900 more currency than on Jan. I, 1886,
and also over So. 600. 900 moro gold. All
these utterances coming from 90 high a
source are OF prime Importance Just now
as iorehadowing the policy OF the govern.
ment on the money question:" 49,.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31

The legislature of New York has just
appropriated the sum of ten hundred
thousand dollars to meet DEFICIENCIES in
State prison support occasioned by
the enforced idleness OF prisoners.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31

The late plot to assassinate the
Car OF Russia is said to have been
with the purpose of "terrorizing him
INTO granting a constitutional govern
ment, or surrendering his life."
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31
Address to the Irish League.

The executive board of the Irish League
OF America has issued an address to the
Irishmen of America.
The address opens with reference to the
appeal by the corporation oiDublin to the
Christian world for a protest OF humanity
against the further oppression of the Irish
people by the British government,
recites the present political situa-
ton ut length and closes with
an appeal to the American press and PEG.
pie to pass their verdict, and say boldly if
the Irish have not displayed all the for
bearance that human nature is capable of
in their passive resistance to such inhuman
law as those the British government would
have them submit. If nothing will satisfy
the British government but the destruc-
ton OF the Irish people, Ireland will
be justified before God and man in
selling her life at the heaviest price
sho can obtain and in using every
weapon the ingenuity of man can
place within her hands. Condemnation OF
the policy OF the British government by
the American public is asked in
order to help avert such catastrophe.
The address urges reorganization of the
disbanded branches OF the league and the
establishment of new ones and asks
that the Irish people living on farms too
widely separated from each other to form
branches, send their names and subscrip-
tions to Rev. DR.. Orrmsby OF Detroit, who
will acknowledge the same through the
press.
The address is signed by J John Fitzgerald,
president OF the league.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-03-31
Broad Guage Railroad Views.

At a meeting in Boston, Charles Francis
Adams. president OF the Union Pacific
railroad, said:
look forward to the time when rail-
road consolidation in Massachusetts
will be far greater than at present.
II this is to be, you must not
try to legislate and act as though
you knew more than the Almighty. l
look forward to the time when you will see
the New York & New England, the New
York, New Haven & Hartford and many
other Massachusetts roads all consolidate.
ed, and when 40, 900 miles OF railroad will
be managed under one head. We never
have any difficulty in controlling large
roads. 1t was the little ones we are always
bothered with. Look ut our large roads.
There is no one so poor who scat at liberty
shoot q fling at big roads. See what they
are saying every day about the Union Pa
cic. Whenever abuse springs up let the
commissioners arraign us before the bar OF
public opinion. and l do not fear the result
All that has been said about
railroads ruling the legislature is folly.
assure you that while you have juries,
legislatures and public opinion, the rail
roads will yield to their force.